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I agree stability is part - I think it over measures - I don't believe player defensive values ping-pong around from season to season as much as DRS does. So I'd argue your syntax a bit - I wouldn't say DRS stabilizes over time, you're just taking an average over time to create a stability that isn't actually there in the measurement. So in a way that gives it more credit than I would. But the other thing I question is when you put it all together I don't think the total team aggregates pass the smell test. Now it's fine that knowledgeable people understand the limitation of defensive metrics; they aren't easy to get a good handle on, so you do the best you can. The problem is when the defensive piece gets rolled into WAR and the world take that number as gospel.

So it makes sense that positional value of LF is lower in general, but does a guy get dinged for being a LF at COPA, which has higher positional value than most other parks? Aside from that, can't disagree Riley has a noodle arm.

Ironically, in today's game if you are going to drop a bundle, I think a guy that has already had TJ and recovered successfully might be a better risk to keep playing over the life of a contract. 🤷‍♂️

My confidence in DRS has been falling annually.

Team winning without getting much other than Ks from Riley. Riley is a little homer happy. He has 4 hits in July, 3 were HR. But his OBP is only 241.

Colt does not like April. He digs the rest of the season though.

spectator in his own administration.

Still would like to hear what Diaz was thinking going to 2nd in the 1st inning. I guess the most logical assumption is that he thought he was such an easy force at 2nd that the best thing he could do was go easy and stay in the way of the return throw of a 3-6-3 DP attempt. The idea that it could be just be a 3-6 no force and he'd be a tag target apparently didn't enter his mind.

Odd outcomes: Montero has pitched better in Detroit than in Toledo. SGL has pitched better in Toledo than in Det. AAA results would argue SGL for the 5th spot over Montero, but it hasn't worked out that way - at least so far.

It's not like there are no consistent relievers, just not many. Going into ST last season we were all ready for Lange and Foley to be the backend for a few years. Can only laugh at that now.

I don't know how much input he gets, but from listening so far, McLellan doesn't talk like a coach interested in a non-D D-man. Then again, talk is one thing, having an asset in hand is another.

I’m sure they have some data driven framework for just exactly which style of pitcher should follow which.

correct - which is what I was getting at in noting the lack of 'authenticity' in today's US RW Christianity.

that's what works for me when I stick to it.

Not necessarily. The US civil rights movement took great strength from their belief that a "Christian' nation had to be challenged to do better, and took hope in their interpretation of the Gospel that better lives and societies were possible. In my view, authentic Christianity is at heart a subversive ethic that adds to people's motivation to challenge the status quo for the sake of the future. The problem is that there isn't much authentic in US fundamentalist evangelicalism. The great fault line of religious belief is exactly when it's able to be twisted into another mean of control - of which one aspect is exactly inculcation of that sense of fatalism that pacifies the proles.

I think that whole line of argument is probably put out more in service of FOs that use it as an excuse to keep payroll down than because it's a real concern of players.

IDK, athletes in other sports deal with this all the time. I baseball it's often underpaid guys who are pre-FA that are the leaders and drivers of teams. Cade Cunningham was the Pistons' undisputed leader while still on his rookie deal. Not sure why hockey players should have more fragile egos.

Last time a rich deficit hawk tried to start a party the result was to get the Democrat elected, so I guess I'm 'wait and see' on this.

The Erik Karlsson with 300 giveaways over the last 3 seasons?

Speaking of Cobb, he was supposed to throw a BP this week. Not sure how the Tigers are finesseing this or if the transactions page is just inacurate (not unlikely) but his rehab assignment started May 30, which means it has to be up by now unless he was put back on IL sometime after his June 11 appearance for the Hens.

I think we are going to see Lange soon - but not until he works a back-to-back, which he hasn't yet.

Waste of protoplasm. It just keeps going back to how people can be so ignorant as to vote for these complete morons. But as was posted up thread, they are so culturally indoctrinated to see other side as some kind of satanic influence that they won't even engage on the merits of who they are voting for. And more broadly, acceptance of religious based fatalism will surely doom the prospects for progress in any culture. The term I always heard from the old-worlders I grew up around was "Inshallah" - God's will. Well try not believing in a God that doesn't think you should use every brain cell he gave you to make things better instead of accepting fate in ignorance.

good way to break a long OhFer.

I was just going to post that Trey had looked pretty out of sync in his last AB.

OK - who had Sweeney on their Bingo card?